On Aug 27, 2010, at 4:52 PM, John Millikin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 20:51, I wrote: > >> Maybe Linux is different. One thing is NOT different, and that is >> Linux upgrades *DO* reliably break programs that use dynamic linking. > > Upgrading Linux should never, ever cause applications to stop working > unless they were designed incorrectly in the first place.
"Linux" in this context means the system as perceived by users, a "distribution", not just a kernel. > > > Desktop-oriented distributions, such as Ubuntu or Fedora, are not > suitable for long-term (> 6 years or so) installations. Fedora is one of the Linux distributions I was talking about. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
